The making of Martin Sparrow / Peter Cochrane
- Bib ID:
- 7544717
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cochrane, Peter, 1950-, author
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Vic. : Penguin Random House Australia, 2018
- ©2018
- 453 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780670074068 (paperback)
- 0670074063 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Martin Sparrow is already struggling when the Hawkesbury's great flood of March 1806 lays waste to him and his farm. Luckless, lovelorn and deep in debt, the ex-convict is confronted with a choice. He can buckle down and set about his agricultural recovery, or he can heed the whispers of an earthly paradise on the far side of the mountains - a place where men are truly free - and strike out for a new life. But what chance of renewal is there for a man like Sparrow in either the brutal colony or the forbidding wilderness? The decision he makes triggers a harrowing chain of events and draws in a cast of extraordinary characters, including Alister Mackie, the chief constable on the river; his deputy, Thaddeus Cuff; the vicious hunter, Griffin Pinney; the Romany girl, Bea Faa; and the young Aboriginal men, Caleb and Moowut'tin, caught between war and peace. Set against the awe-inspiring immensity of the hinterland west of the Hawkesbury River, this epic of chance and endurance is an immersion into another time, a masterpiece of language and atmosphere. Rich, raw, strangely beautiful and utterly convincing, The Making of Martin Sparrow reveals Peter Cochrane - already one of our leading historians - as one of our most compelling novelists.
- Notes:
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- "Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books"--Title page.
- "After the flood comes the reckoning"--Cover.
- NLApp75446
- NLApp73601
- Subject:
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- Frontier and pioneer life -- New South Wales -- Hawkesbury River Region -- Fiction
- Farmers -- New South Wales -- History -- Fiction
- Convicts -- Australia -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- New South Wales -- Social life and customs -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction
- Hawkesbury River Region (N.S.W.) -- History -- Fiction
- New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction
- Australian
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2018
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